The number of journals and communities on LJ is doubling roughly ever other year, and has been for at least 5 years. However, the number of postings per day has been as high as 500K, but is now stabilized at around 200K. So not only is there less overall activity, the average activity on each journal/community is halving every other year. Which ( Read more... )

Mickey and I went shopping on the east side of the Isar today, looking for a couple specialty shops. What we didn't expect to find was a large city library, a great but not pricey supermarket, a possible job opening at a yarn shop, and one of the few English movie theatres - that holds the world record for longest regular showing of Rocky Horror ( Read more... )

In many Google apps, you can press ? to get an overview of keyboard shortcuts.

Dunno if I'll ever need this, but... to paint a car well, paint it thoroughly, then polish it (using machine polishers) until rubbing chalk across it leaves no trace. Then give it two layers of lacquer in the same way. From a program on Rolls-Royce. Possibly requires robots to do it evenly enough.

Today I got to see two apartments that could be my home for the next 9 months. Take a look at them and see which one you like better:

First one
Second one
( The apartments in real life )

You betcha! I was wondering before going down there if there would be as many bakeries as in Denmark. There aren't. There are way, way more. I have found at least three chains of bakeries (Rischarf, Müller and Wimmer) that have bakeries all over the place, plus some independent ones, plus every cafe has a selection of bread and cake. The main ( Read more... )

One of the problems I'm finding in working for Google is the confidentiality agreement. Not that I want to sell out confidential information to other companies, but my fingers are itching to tell all my friends about all the cool stuff that is going on at Google and the awesomeness that is coming up. But, alas, I can't. At most, I can give a feel ( Read more... )

I ended up going out to the Wiesn twice more today, well shielded against the burning sun. I tried a couple rides - the AlpinBahn is great! Also tried various combinations of mostly carbs and fat, though I did spot an actual fruit stand. Didn't try no bier, as I have a principle of not drinking alone, except after hard work ( Read more... )

Or possibly even a dirndl. I went to take a look at Oktoberfest, and I knew it was going to be large, but noone had warned me that it would be *huge*.

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Yesterday was my first day at Google (I just love writing that). It was comfortable, yet scary, cool and confusing, and unsurprisingly a massive information overload. They really have everything written down and explained, and are very helpful with any other strange questions I can come up with (and I can come up with a few). There were (gasp!) a ( Read more... )